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Klaas Carel Faber

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authorities, the second with reference to the 1957 decision of lack of evidence. When new evidence was presented to a Munich court in 2006, the cases were viewed as manslaughter as opposed to murder, and thus outside the statute of limitations. A new arrest warrant from Dutch authorities was required to reopen the case, which was issued in part because of the attention brought to the case by Dutch journalist
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various administrative decisions regarding the Faber case; in 2012, Dutch historian Jan de Roos filed a suit against the Dutch government regarding their decision to not release correspondence between it and the German government about Faber. In 2012 a protest, organised by Dutch anti-fascist Arthur Graaff, was held against a visit of the then German president
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In January 2012 the German Justice department requested the judiciary in Ingolstadt, after pressure from the Dutch government, to execute the life sentence of the war criminal. Faber died before the request was granted. The many extradition requests and other investigations also called into question
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In 1957, a German court in Düsseldorf dismissed charges against him for lack of evidence, claiming the Dutch authorities would not share evidence. Two extradition requests were made by the Dutch in 1954 and 2004 to have Faber returned to complete his sentence. Both requests were denied by the German
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as one of the most important Nazi era war criminals still at large. The center noted that he was a member of the Sonderkommando Feldmeijer execution squad. In July 2009 it was reported that at the time the German government might have wanted to prosecute Faber after all while other reports stated
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for Faber, the first the country ever issued for a war criminal. The application questioned the legality of Faber's German citizenship given because of his membership in the SS. A Justice official from Bavarian justice stated that the request would be considered, "but as far as I know, there is
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on 9 June 1947, for the murder of 11 persons in Westerbork and 11 others. The Dutch court stated that the Faber brothers were "two of the worst criminals of the SS". Pieter Faber was executed in 1948. On 14 January 1948, Faber's sentence was commuted to
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Erlaß über den Erwerb der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit durch Einstellung in die deutsche Wehrmacht, die Waffen-SS, die deutsche Polizei oder die Organisation Todt vom 11. Mai 1943
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I. S. 315), which automatically awarded citizenship to all foreign members of the Waffen-SS and other organizations. From 1943 to 1944, he was a commander of a
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and four other former members of the Dutch SS, and that same evening crossed the border into Germany. The escape may have been masterminded by the
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were members of the same squad) of prominent Dutch citizens in reprisal for Resistance activities, and served as a bodyguard to Dutch Nazi leader
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that he enjoyed immunity from prosecution. In August 2010, following the petition of more than 150 lawyers organized by
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to the Dutch town of Breda was named 'Gauck nicht, Faber wohl' (nach Holland) ('Not Gauck, but Faber' (to Holland)).
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in 1940. After five months, he abandoned military training for less demanding police jobs in
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After the war, Faber was tried by a Dutch court and sentenced to death by
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of the Dutch resistance on 8 June 1944. He participated in the SS's
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In May 1943, he became a German citizen with the passing of the
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National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands politicians
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and until retirement worked for the car manufacturer
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Haarlem
Netherlands
Ingolstadt
Germany
Nazi Germany

Sicherheitsdienst
World War II
Dutch
German
war criminal
Simon Wiesenthal Center
list of most wanted Nazi war criminals
Haarlem
National Socialist Movement
Waffen SS
German occupation of the Netherlands
Rotterdam
The Hague
RGBl.
firing squad
Westerbork concentration camp
Anne Frank
Belsen
baker
Heemstede
Hannie Schaft
Feldmeijer
Heinrich Boere

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